The iPod may have beat the competition in the beginning, but after a couple of years it quickly remained the either the most expensive or close to the most expe

The iPod may have beat the competition in the beginning, but after a couple of years it quickly remained the either the most expensive or close to the most expensive device in it's class. Apple notoriously only sold the shuffle under $100 while many competitors offered devices with dramatically more space and screens for under $100. By the 2007 era and the beginning of keeping your music on your phone, it would have been utterly disingenuous to call the iPod "cheap" or anything close to it.